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Chicago examiner â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ thursday thursday vol xv xo 2glâ€”a m Chicago october 25 1917 registered prtpf two ppytq in Chicago elsewhere v 8 patent office jrriujul xÂ»v vj kjÂ£jjs x o a x d suburbs thkeb cents loan leaps to 3 billions german army strikes italy i hi offensive threat by austria to make sepa rate peace unless kaiser came to aid responsible for joint assault on isonzo front london oct 4 one of the year's biggest drives set in to day with a carefully prepared ter rific teuton attack against the ital ians for which every available aus trian and german soldier and every available teuton gun have been quiet ly concentrated for weeks berlin officially announced to-day the capture of the foremost italian positions in each of the vital sectors from tolmino to flitch thousands of prisoners were cap tured according to the night state ment the rome war office asserts the blow will find the italians steady and prepared battle over 23 mile front the battle raged over a twenty three-mile front it is asserted that early in october 800,000 men were withdrawn from the russian front to face general cadorna's army to day's withdrawal on the riga front is believedt to be for the purpose of sending more men to austria the german guns and men are said to greatly outnumber the austriuns kome reports that the enemy pre faged its attack with a severe bom bardment and with the use of a spe cial gas shell bad weather ham pered the teuton gunners usually winter stops major operations on this front at this time the immediate aim of the offensive is to crush in the dangerous wedge general cadorna has driven into the austrian lines between the isonzo and carso armies completely isolat ing the latter but there are other motives behind this surprise campaign motives of transcendent political importance from a closely posted diplomatic source the following outline of the central powers 1 plan of action was obtained to-night riga capture to be first step haunted by sinister forethoughts of a combined american british and french spring campaign in the west next year germany had set her mind on one thing â€” the elimination of rus sia capture of the gulf of ri_a was to be the first step it was well under way when austria besought help against italy food riols in austria-hungary became â€” and are becoming â€” more freuuent more vio lent daily the peace movement grew and is growing more powerful hourly while the cleavage between the germans in austria and the other races in the hapsburg empire is widening at a rate alarming to vienna and berlin emperor charles indignant over hindenburg's original refusal of aid refused to ko to sofia for the con templated four rulers meeting if we can't have german troops and ammunition we must have peace was the hint shot from the danube capital to wilhelmstrasee suppress lampoon called geo v shrimp cambridge mass oct 24 â€” the second edition of the harvard lam poon has teen suppressed it called king george of england a shrimp 30,000 men to ask packers for raise now vtineteen trades employed m 1 ' the stock yards have arranged to demand an increase m wages nd extra pay for overtime for 30,000 employes the demands will be submitted to the packers next week employes declare they are working twelve hours a day con trary to federal orders and are receiving only the regular rate an hour for overtime union leaders charge that fric tion is being created between the white and colored employes to discredit the unions a large percentage of colored men have joined the union john fitzpatrick president of the Chicago federation of labor said last night there can be no trouble if the packers meet us m a spirit of ne gotiation if trouble comes how ever the employes are ready to meet it mother kills self and 3 babes brooding over illness of son in hospital turns on gas at home heartbroken because one of her children was in a hospital where she could not care for him mrs catherine nieholls last night called for three other children into her bedroom turned on the gas and ended their lives and her own the father hugh nicholls left the home 4028 south campbell avenue after dinner last night to visit the sick boy in the university hospital the five-year-old lad is suffering from spinal trouble father finds four dead when the father returned the back doors were locked and no lights were burning he smashed in a window crawled through and searched for his wife and children upstairs he found the bedroom locked and kicked the door in the gas almost choked him but he broke the windows then he found the body of his wife with her three children thomas eight years old elizabeth six and philip two all were dead mrs nicholl left a letter addressed to her husband it read dear hugh i think v/e had so much trouble that it is best for me to do the end be good to willie god be with him mrs west left 5 for the stove and i will give the other a thursday and you can dress tom in a new suit and mrs curry will have my dress ready vol were good to me put it on me and let us be laid out at undertaker cleary'.s see that he dresses the children right do not let him take any blood out of them juf-t let him wash and dress them and no cutting hugh i loved you you were good to me and a good husband god bless you 1 hope you ill forgive me do not let people in here be cause they might steal things do not have anything to do with mrs garrity or my mother i am inking j the children because i love them 35 cities to contest lowering gas quality contests by thirty-five cities and villages of Illinois of the petition to the state utilities commission by the public service company of northern Illinois asking permission o reduce the quality of gas to that furnished m Chicago were decided yesterday by mayors presidents and attorneys of the various places the meeting was m the grand pacific hotel f w pringe oz oak parlc was elected president of the organization formed for the contest set butter poultry egg prices today wheeler cold storage men and retailers to confer dealers warned profit law is in force | administrator asks for reports on wholesalers refusing to meet the government's prices prices for butter cheese eggs and poultry and other cold storage prod ucts will be fixed to-day after a conference between food adminis trator harry a wheeler and cold storage plant proprietors and retail ers they will take effect saturday cornmeal and rye flour prices to be announced to-day will be effective to-morrow mr wheeler yesterday added con densed milk to the commodities which will be sold at the government price he warned wholesalers and retail ers the excess profits act was in full force united states district attor ney charles f clyne announced he will go the limit in enforcing the law he asked retail merchants who say they cannot purchase commodities at the government price to lay the facts before him so action can be taken he said there were many complaints of this nature but none was willing to give names dates and facts storage men to aid mr wheeler conferred yesterday with twenty cold storage owners and will meet the retailers to-day he found a spirit of co-operation among these men and said price-fixing would not be a difficult task lower prices for flour and pota toes probably will be announced in the next few days he said the potato crop is large and we will be able to force the price down ward the flour situation is differ ent there is a scarcity but under this food administration plan the fact an article is scarce does not mean that any one has the right to gouge the public we have no power to force re tailers to accept these prices our weapon is the public any one fool ish enough to pay higher prices than the man charges next door cannot be benefited by these prices sooner or later these men will be compelled to accept the government prices to save their businesses i'llll is no higher i expect that within ten days or two weeks the grocers generally will be abiding by the government prices changes in all prices will be downward except on sugar and that will hold for the 1917 crop which will be in the market soon after november 1 retailers will be licensed and if any one holding such a license fails to sell at the government's price the licenses will be revoked mr wheeler intimated that alien capital may have been used in stor ing sugar prices vary in Chicago according to districts many places were sell ing potatoes under the government price but flour and sugar were high er a table of prices follows 6 states want t r to lead division boston oct 24 â€” governors of six new england states friday will ask the war department to give colonel roosevelt authority to raise a new dfcision corps for overseas service the governors plan is to take the 2.000 soldiers at camp bart lett mass who form the skeleton of the si old new england regiments as the nucleus of the new division with the colonel m supreme com mand 4 bolsheviki declares war on kerensky trotsky's resolution calls for ousting of premier and imme diate request for armistice revolution et for nov 2 as serted republic's head plans to hand capital to germans petrograd oct 24 that a united attempt by the bolsheviki to seize the reins of government will b made on november 2 is hinted in all evening papers printing the pro gram of the central council of sol diers and workmen which convenes on that date according to the vechenree vrem ya the council deputies frankly admit they are planning civil war a resolution proposed by dcputv leon trotsky one of council mem bers was adopted after much ded.ate it provides that steps should be taken to conclude peace as quickly as pos sible calls kerensky traitor the resolution charges that p*e mier kerensky is endeavoring to de liver petrogrrad over t the germans and their allies and is openly favor ing the kaiser it demands that all power for the government of the country be vested in the council and instructs the executive committee to propose an annistice to all the nations m trotsky the author of the res olution explained that the refusal of the bolsheviki to participate in the first meeting of the russian con gress was because of the belief it was not truly representative russia while a republic is under the control of a dictator â€” kerensky he added fight for peace â€” kerensky in an impassioned speech before the preliminary parliament to-day premier kerensky pleaded with his hearers to sound a call for royalty throughout their districts he said if the russian people will only end internal strife and present a united front to the enemy we will soon have peace probably by christmas a peace that will be honorable to the great russian re public if only we could rekindle the enthusiasm of those july days im mediately following the revolution the war would soon be ended nation's life at stake we are not fighting for political ends but for the very existence of russia the army in the trenches seems to have lost its sense of duty and honor the batteries at oesel island gave up without a struggle while the little dago island force fought bravely peace is being postponed by the disintegration of the army by forces that are continuing,the work of the old regime when the enemy pierced our galieian front the excesses at ka luscz and kishiniff required for the time being the restoration of the death penalty these excesses recall to mind the pogroms of the times of the romanoffs while excesses still continue in southern russia i believe the regular organization of the army with the co-operation of the mili tary staff and commissioners can create in the army the martial spir it necessary for a successful at tack on the enemy amundsen returns kaiser's decoration london oct 24 â€” captain roald amundsen famous norwegian ex plorer has returned a decoration given him by the kaiser he re turned the decoration to the german embassy at christiania as a protest against a german murder of peaceful sailors in the north se^fti october 17 m ~\ â– _ germans build diving cruisers u=boat toll up london oct 24 â€” seventeen vessels of more than 1,600 tons each eight less than that ton nage and no fishing smacks was the toll of german submarines and mines on british shipping during the past week according to the official statement issued to-night this is the greatest number of ves sels sent down m the last six weeks germany the daily mail says is now using diving cruisers some of these are 8,000 tons mounting eight-inch guns with an unlimited cruising radius their appearance increases the subma rine menace edo taken in slacker raid detectives and hunted men in street battle in west â€¢ side roundup the most spectacular raid in the campaign against alleged draft dodg ers in Chicago occurred last night ten automobile loads of city de tectives and federal operatives round ed up 600 suspects on the west side the raiders activities were punctu ated by one revolver battle in which two of their quarry exchanged sev eral shots with them before sur rendering a dozen fist fights also occurred the six hundred suspects were herded into the clubhouse in stan ford park fourteenth place and union avenue and put through third degree examination thirty unable satisfactorily to explain why they had not answered exemption board calls were imprisoned the others were released with orders to report saturday ois fail to appear the raids followed a conference of exemption board no 44 and de partment of justice officials records presented by jacob bernhelm chair man of the board and ira arkin clerk showed 618 men had failed to answer summons for physical exam ination police station shortly after dark raid ers all armed scoured the west side until dawn men apparently of draft age were seized on streets in homes stores ice cream parlors pool and billiard halls and hotels twenty were rounded up in a rooming house at 905 west fourteenth street they were rushed to the clubhouse in pa trol wagons pistol uiei ix street the shooting occurred a stone's throw from the clubhouse detectives halted sarinic kusnian and tony makavarow both of 1343 south san gamon street to question them both are of draft age the men fled detectives who shot into the air several times claim the fugitives re turned their fire other detectives hastened up overpowered the men and rushed them before the board 450 ships taken by u s since oct 15 washington oct i!4 four hundred and fifty ships of more than 2,500 tons have been taken into ac tual government service by the shipping board since october 15 not including vessels on which negotia tions are still m progress edison in washington with u-boat devices washington oct 24 â€” thomas a edison has established headquarters m washington his new devices to combat the submarine have reached a point where he finds it necessary to be m the closest communication with naval expert q war only beginning says head of mission a great series of social revo lutions is on lord north cliffe tells 1,400 at as sociation of commerce dinner lord northcliffe head of the . british war mission bade farewell to Chicago last night with a final appeal for ships food conservation and liberty bonds he was a guest of honor at a din ner given by the association of commerce at the la salle into which 1,400 persons fought their way an even greater number of applicants for tickets could not be admitted lord northcliffe ended his win the-war appeal by producing a bond saleswoman making a purchase and calling on all to follow suit mrs elodia dick chairman 1 of the blackstone hotel bond booth was the saleswoman the noted englishman hurrying away to catch a train for kansas city left her in charge of the speak ers table and his check for 250 the great audience cheered for five minutes ' war great series of social revolutions john w o'leary president of the association of commerce introduced lord northeliffe whom he styled the man with courage to change his gov ernment to suit its needs lord northcliffe said , when i last spoke in this room when i spoke of the war which was coming i am bound to say i did not have so large or so enthusi astic an audience i remember many of my fellow makers of news papers suggested i was trying to start a sensation around the world well i had had unusual oppor tunities for learning a war was coming but i am bound to confess i had little notion the war would be a great series of wars a great series of earthshakes a great se ries of social revolutions only at beginning of world revolution i am one of those who say quite plainly and believe absolutely that we are only at the very beginning of this strange and mysterious thing that is passing over the world i met a young man to-day â€” a very young man â€” who told me he * had what you call a hunch the war was approaching its close i said my dear boy three years ago many young people and others not so young had exactly the same , . u s weather forecast ( liit':mir and virliiity â€” increa!tiii cloudinonn thursday probably fol ; lowed by rain irid:iy rain no de i cided change m temperature increas | ints easterly inds becoming fresh tcmpkbatubb for twcirfy-four hours ending 2 a m hiffhent 14 lowest 40 mean 42 xormnl temperature lor the day 49 deficiency sinre january 1 404 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hour none de ficiency since january 1 5.89 inches relative humidity 7 a m 67 2 p m 66 7 p m 66 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.28 7 p m 30.00 sunrise to-diy 6:14 sunset 4;54 coisdlet covammtnt leport on pace it Chicago leads other districts in day's drive washington oct 24 other districts did not live up to the lead set by Chicago m liberty day subscriptions to the loan but here are the latest official and un official figures up to early after noon inofficial . official to-day boston $ 205,700,000 $ 260,000,000 olicnko 204,805,000 390,000,000 k york 737,719,000 935,000,000 phlla .. 54,940,350 250,000,000 clev'l'd 192,769,000 250,000,000 it if inn â– <! 73,543,000 115,000,000 atlanta 14,410,450 35,000,000 st louis 53,417,050 115,000,000 min'p's . 71,250,000 00,000,000 kan c 29,973,000 100,000,000 dalian . 19,252,950 50,000,000 s fran 73,247,300 125,000,000 totals 1,731,055,(km 2,715,000,000 1,215,000,000 day's estimate j treasury officials believe mini mum reached first figures show 2,715,000,000 washington oct 24 treasury officials were confident to-night that liherty day subscriptions had raised the second liberty loan to at least the 3,000,000,000 minimum and probably above that figure unofficial conservative estimates were that the liberty bond sales reached 1 215 000,000 for the day these estimates based upon incom plete reports brought the unofficial loan total thus far to 2,715,000,000 official bgvrcs were a billion less but this w to be expected officials explained as most of the tabulations were hours behind the last actual subscriptions minimum thought reached this statement was at 9 o'clock to night by the treasury department indications are that liberty day subscriptions to the second liberty loan brought the total for the 5,000,000,000 drive close to 3 000 000,000 but there is no official assurance that this mark was passed afternoon reports showed chi cago had subscribed almost 100 000,000 michigan 76,000,000 illi nois outside of Chicago 25,000,000 lowa 47,000,000 wisconsin 40 000,000 and indiana 36,000,000 the st louis district will sub scribe its minimum total by satur day a message from st louis said the district's minimum quota is 120,000,000 the department's statement was based upon returns and estimates from most of the twelve reserve dis tricts wired at 5 o'clock in the aft ernoon eastern time complete figires ot known the full figures of to-day's sales will not be known officials assert before the campaign ends saturday reports from the reserve districts were delayed by storms in different sections the fact that banks all over the country ke^t open for sub scriptions late w to-night also made an accurate estimate difficult president wilson started the na tional work with his personal sub i script lon of 15,000 he had pur j chased a 10,000 bond in the first : loan mme melba injured by stage lights fall fort worth tex oct 24 â€” as mine melba was presenting faust to-night she was slightly injured during the first act when a row of lights at the back of the stage fell and struck her on the arm j carroll beckwith portrait painter dies new york oct 24 â€” j carroll beckwith sixty-five one of america's foremost portrait painters dropped dead here of heart disease to-night 50,000,000 bond sale on liberty day here all subscription records broken in patriotic demonstration to tal is 160,000,000 180 , 950,000 maximum in reach day's liberty totals i Chicago $ 50,000,000 nation est'd â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢ 1.215,000,000 i known total to date 2,715,000,000 estimated total more than 3,000,000,000 Chicago subscribed 50,000,000 to the liberty loan yesterday ; as its answer to president wil , son's plea to make liberty day the greatest day in the nation's history all previous records were broken when tabulation of the day's patri otic activity revealed this staggering : total which practically assures chi cago's oversubscription of its maxi ' mum allotment the unofficial total now stands at ' approximately 160,000,000 for the city alone this is just 20,950,000 i from the maximum goal ' t r two subscriptions alone approxi mated 10,000,000 but the result waa not attained solely by big sub bers the flying squadron selling to small buyers almost ex clusively raised its total during the day from 34,19Â£i,450 to approximately 50,000,000 â€” a gain for the day o about 16,000,000 i high marks for day some of the record-breaking sub , scriptions follow santa fe railroad 5,000,000 international harvester co 4,325,000 iloard of trade aggregate of subscriptions during the day 1,658,659 central trust co additional 1,000,000 Illinois steel co.(additlonal 1,500,000 Chicago breweries co 770,000 l.'niversal portlnnd cement co 400,00ft '' frank d stout 300,000 jo t ryerson & sons 300,000 i national coal jobbers ban quet at hotel sherman 200,000 steel sales corporation and employes i . 0,01)0 bliss & laughlln 100,000 i liryden rubber co 100,000 Chicago butter and egg board 100,00ft american sugar refin'g co 100,000 r.lnin juliet & eastern r r 100,000 peoples gas light & coke co employes 56,450 ! robert w roloson 50,000 appleton electric co 50,000 : brownell improvement co so.ooo clilcnÃŸo-cu-veland tar roof ins co 50,000 iluotli fisheries co 50,000 to reach its maximum quota of i 50.950,000 Chicago must subscribe â– 7,000,000 daily during the remaining . three days of the campaign Â» 329387,000 l district jtm incomplete returns on the enl !â– seventh federal reserve district m dieate a t0t.Â».l of jy,357,000 had beifl subscribed up to tuesday night tl figure is exclusive of the totals many districts which have not jfl reported flf^^h tabulations by states follow Illinois exclusive of cook county 3 24,05.-fl cook county loo.ooa io Â«Â» â€¢ 47,45^8 indiana j j^..j l ... k .,. 3e,sesfl continued on 6th page 2d column i rl govt north south west commodity prlm sldci sld sldi sugar 714-w4 10c 9'/io 9c flour i bbl i.49-$i.6o 1.63 1.65 1.60 potatoes pÂ«ck 43-460 44c 45c 40c cond milk can i8-2ic 25c 23c 25c for other nens of the food situ ation see lÂ»Â»be 5 ( x good pay yx __ and steady employment are of ' j fered you to-day through help wanted columns m the exam iner's classified section turn to he want ad pages now and ( t -" j select at once the place that '-** ' ~~" suits you and your ability too ' â„¢"â„¢~ ft final ft edition

Chicago examiner â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ thursday thursday vol xv xo 2glâ€”a m Chicago october 25 1917 registered prtpf two ppytq in Chicago elsewhere v 8 patent office jrriujul xÂ»v vj kjÂ£jjs x o a x d suburbs thkeb cents loan leaps to 3 billions german army strikes italy i hi offensive threat by austria to make sepa rate peace unless kaiser came to aid responsible for joint assault on isonzo front london oct 4 one of the year's biggest drives set in to day with a carefully prepared ter rific teuton attack against the ital ians for which every available aus trian and german soldier and every available teuton gun have been quiet ly concentrated for weeks berlin officially announced to-day the capture of the foremost italian positions in each of the vital sectors from tolmino to flitch thousands of prisoners were cap tured according to the night state ment the rome war office asserts the blow will find the italians steady and prepared battle over 23 mile front the battle raged over a twenty three-mile front it is asserted that early in october 800,000 men were withdrawn from the russian front to face general cadorna's army to day's withdrawal on the riga front is believedt to be for the purpose of sending more men to austria the german guns and men are said to greatly outnumber the austriuns kome reports that the enemy pre faged its attack with a severe bom bardment and with the use of a spe cial gas shell bad weather ham pered the teuton gunners usually winter stops major operations on this front at this time the immediate aim of the offensive is to crush in the dangerous wedge general cadorna has driven into the austrian lines between the isonzo and carso armies completely isolat ing the latter but there are other motives behind this surprise campaign motives of transcendent political importance from a closely posted diplomatic source the following outline of the central powers 1 plan of action was obtained to-night riga capture to be first step haunted by sinister forethoughts of a combined american british and french spring campaign in the west next year germany had set her mind on one thing â€” the elimination of rus sia capture of the gulf of ri_a was to be the first step it was well under way when austria besought help against italy food riols in austria-hungary became â€” and are becoming â€” more freuuent more vio lent daily the peace movement grew and is growing more powerful hourly while the cleavage between the germans in austria and the other races in the hapsburg empire is widening at a rate alarming to vienna and berlin emperor charles indignant over hindenburg's original refusal of aid refused to ko to sofia for the con templated four rulers meeting if we can't have german troops and ammunition we must have peace was the hint shot from the danube capital to wilhelmstrasee suppress lampoon called geo v shrimp cambridge mass oct 24 â€” the second edition of the harvard lam poon has teen suppressed it called king george of england a shrimp 30,000 men to ask packers for raise now vtineteen trades employed m 1 ' the stock yards have arranged to demand an increase m wages nd extra pay for overtime for 30,000 employes the demands will be submitted to the packers next week employes declare they are working twelve hours a day con trary to federal orders and are receiving only the regular rate an hour for overtime union leaders charge that fric tion is being created between the white and colored employes to discredit the unions a large percentage of colored men have joined the union john fitzpatrick president of the Chicago federation of labor said last night there can be no trouble if the packers meet us m a spirit of ne gotiation if trouble comes how ever the employes are ready to meet it mother kills self and 3 babes brooding over illness of son in hospital turns on gas at home heartbroken because one of her children was in a hospital where she could not care for him mrs catherine nieholls last night called for three other children into her bedroom turned on the gas and ended their lives and her own the father hugh nicholls left the home 4028 south campbell avenue after dinner last night to visit the sick boy in the university hospital the five-year-old lad is suffering from spinal trouble father finds four dead when the father returned the back doors were locked and no lights were burning he smashed in a window crawled through and searched for his wife and children upstairs he found the bedroom locked and kicked the door in the gas almost choked him but he broke the windows then he found the body of his wife with her three children thomas eight years old elizabeth six and philip two all were dead mrs nicholl left a letter addressed to her husband it read dear hugh i think v/e had so much trouble that it is best for me to do the end be good to willie god be with him mrs west left 5 for the stove and i will give the other a thursday and you can dress tom in a new suit and mrs curry will have my dress ready vol were good to me put it on me and let us be laid out at undertaker cleary'.s see that he dresses the children right do not let him take any blood out of them juf-t let him wash and dress them and no cutting hugh i loved you you were good to me and a good husband god bless you 1 hope you ill forgive me do not let people in here be cause they might steal things do not have anything to do with mrs garrity or my mother i am inking j the children because i love them 35 cities to contest lowering gas quality contests by thirty-five cities and villages of Illinois of the petition to the state utilities commission by the public service company of northern Illinois asking permission o reduce the quality of gas to that furnished m Chicago were decided yesterday by mayors presidents and attorneys of the various places the meeting was m the grand pacific hotel f w pringe oz oak parlc was elected president of the organization formed for the contest set butter poultry egg prices today wheeler cold storage men and retailers to confer dealers warned profit law is in force | administrator asks for reports on wholesalers refusing to meet the government's prices prices for butter cheese eggs and poultry and other cold storage prod ucts will be fixed to-day after a conference between food adminis trator harry a wheeler and cold storage plant proprietors and retail ers they will take effect saturday cornmeal and rye flour prices to be announced to-day will be effective to-morrow mr wheeler yesterday added con densed milk to the commodities which will be sold at the government price he warned wholesalers and retail ers the excess profits act was in full force united states district attor ney charles f clyne announced he will go the limit in enforcing the law he asked retail merchants who say they cannot purchase commodities at the government price to lay the facts before him so action can be taken he said there were many complaints of this nature but none was willing to give names dates and facts storage men to aid mr wheeler conferred yesterday with twenty cold storage owners and will meet the retailers to-day he found a spirit of co-operation among these men and said price-fixing would not be a difficult task lower prices for flour and pota toes probably will be announced in the next few days he said the potato crop is large and we will be able to force the price down ward the flour situation is differ ent there is a scarcity but under this food administration plan the fact an article is scarce does not mean that any one has the right to gouge the public we have no power to force re tailers to accept these prices our weapon is the public any one fool ish enough to pay higher prices than the man charges next door cannot be benefited by these prices sooner or later these men will be compelled to accept the government prices to save their businesses i'llll is no higher i expect that within ten days or two weeks the grocers generally will be abiding by the government prices changes in all prices will be downward except on sugar and that will hold for the 1917 crop which will be in the market soon after november 1 retailers will be licensed and if any one holding such a license fails to sell at the government's price the licenses will be revoked mr wheeler intimated that alien capital may have been used in stor ing sugar prices vary in Chicago according to districts many places were sell ing potatoes under the government price but flour and sugar were high er a table of prices follows 6 states want t r to lead division boston oct 24 â€” governors of six new england states friday will ask the war department to give colonel roosevelt authority to raise a new dfcision corps for overseas service the governors plan is to take the 2.000 soldiers at camp bart lett mass who form the skeleton of the si old new england regiments as the nucleus of the new division with the colonel m supreme com mand 4 bolsheviki declares war on kerensky trotsky's resolution calls for ousting of premier and imme diate request for armistice revolution et for nov 2 as serted republic's head plans to hand capital to germans petrograd oct 24 that a united attempt by the bolsheviki to seize the reins of government will b made on november 2 is hinted in all evening papers printing the pro gram of the central council of sol diers and workmen which convenes on that date according to the vechenree vrem ya the council deputies frankly admit they are planning civil war a resolution proposed by dcputv leon trotsky one of council mem bers was adopted after much ded.ate it provides that steps should be taken to conclude peace as quickly as pos sible calls kerensky traitor the resolution charges that p*e mier kerensky is endeavoring to de liver petrogrrad over t the germans and their allies and is openly favor ing the kaiser it demands that all power for the government of the country be vested in the council and instructs the executive committee to propose an annistice to all the nations m trotsky the author of the res olution explained that the refusal of the bolsheviki to participate in the first meeting of the russian con gress was because of the belief it was not truly representative russia while a republic is under the control of a dictator â€” kerensky he added fight for peace â€” kerensky in an impassioned speech before the preliminary parliament to-day premier kerensky pleaded with his hearers to sound a call for royalty throughout their districts he said if the russian people will only end internal strife and present a united front to the enemy we will soon have peace probably by christmas a peace that will be honorable to the great russian re public if only we could rekindle the enthusiasm of those july days im mediately following the revolution the war would soon be ended nation's life at stake we are not fighting for political ends but for the very existence of russia the army in the trenches seems to have lost its sense of duty and honor the batteries at oesel island gave up without a struggle while the little dago island force fought bravely peace is being postponed by the disintegration of the army by forces that are continuing,the work of the old regime when the enemy pierced our galieian front the excesses at ka luscz and kishiniff required for the time being the restoration of the death penalty these excesses recall to mind the pogroms of the times of the romanoffs while excesses still continue in southern russia i believe the regular organization of the army with the co-operation of the mili tary staff and commissioners can create in the army the martial spir it necessary for a successful at tack on the enemy amundsen returns kaiser's decoration london oct 24 â€” captain roald amundsen famous norwegian ex plorer has returned a decoration given him by the kaiser he re turned the decoration to the german embassy at christiania as a protest against a german murder of peaceful sailors in the north se^fti october 17 m ~\ â– _ germans build diving cruisers u=boat toll up london oct 24 â€” seventeen vessels of more than 1,600 tons each eight less than that ton nage and no fishing smacks was the toll of german submarines and mines on british shipping during the past week according to the official statement issued to-night this is the greatest number of ves sels sent down m the last six weeks germany the daily mail says is now using diving cruisers some of these are 8,000 tons mounting eight-inch guns with an unlimited cruising radius their appearance increases the subma rine menace edo taken in slacker raid detectives and hunted men in street battle in west â€¢ side roundup the most spectacular raid in the campaign against alleged draft dodg ers in Chicago occurred last night ten automobile loads of city de tectives and federal operatives round ed up 600 suspects on the west side the raiders activities were punctu ated by one revolver battle in which two of their quarry exchanged sev eral shots with them before sur rendering a dozen fist fights also occurred the six hundred suspects were herded into the clubhouse in stan ford park fourteenth place and union avenue and put through third degree examination thirty unable satisfactorily to explain why they had not answered exemption board calls were imprisoned the others were released with orders to report saturday ois fail to appear the raids followed a conference of exemption board no 44 and de partment of justice officials records presented by jacob bernhelm chair man of the board and ira arkin clerk showed 618 men had failed to answer summons for physical exam ination police station shortly after dark raid ers all armed scoured the west side until dawn men apparently of draft age were seized on streets in homes stores ice cream parlors pool and billiard halls and hotels twenty were rounded up in a rooming house at 905 west fourteenth street they were rushed to the clubhouse in pa trol wagons pistol uiei ix street the shooting occurred a stone's throw from the clubhouse detectives halted sarinic kusnian and tony makavarow both of 1343 south san gamon street to question them both are of draft age the men fled detectives who shot into the air several times claim the fugitives re turned their fire other detectives hastened up overpowered the men and rushed them before the board 450 ships taken by u s since oct 15 washington oct i!4 four hundred and fifty ships of more than 2,500 tons have been taken into ac tual government service by the shipping board since october 15 not including vessels on which negotia tions are still m progress edison in washington with u-boat devices washington oct 24 â€” thomas a edison has established headquarters m washington his new devices to combat the submarine have reached a point where he finds it necessary to be m the closest communication with naval expert q war only beginning says head of mission a great series of social revo lutions is on lord north cliffe tells 1,400 at as sociation of commerce dinner lord northcliffe head of the . british war mission bade farewell to Chicago last night with a final appeal for ships food conservation and liberty bonds he was a guest of honor at a din ner given by the association of commerce at the la salle into which 1,400 persons fought their way an even greater number of applicants for tickets could not be admitted lord northcliffe ended his win the-war appeal by producing a bond saleswoman making a purchase and calling on all to follow suit mrs elodia dick chairman 1 of the blackstone hotel bond booth was the saleswoman the noted englishman hurrying away to catch a train for kansas city left her in charge of the speak ers table and his check for 250 the great audience cheered for five minutes ' war great series of social revolutions john w o'leary president of the association of commerce introduced lord northeliffe whom he styled the man with courage to change his gov ernment to suit its needs lord northcliffe said , when i last spoke in this room when i spoke of the war which was coming i am bound to say i did not have so large or so enthusi astic an audience i remember many of my fellow makers of news papers suggested i was trying to start a sensation around the world well i had had unusual oppor tunities for learning a war was coming but i am bound to confess i had little notion the war would be a great series of wars a great series of earthshakes a great se ries of social revolutions only at beginning of world revolution i am one of those who say quite plainly and believe absolutely that we are only at the very beginning of this strange and mysterious thing that is passing over the world i met a young man to-day â€” a very young man â€” who told me he * had what you call a hunch the war was approaching its close i said my dear boy three years ago many young people and others not so young had exactly the same , . u s weather forecast ( liit':mir and virliiity â€” increa!tiii cloudinonn thursday probably fol ; lowed by rain irid:iy rain no de i cided change m temperature increas | ints easterly inds becoming fresh tcmpkbatubb for twcirfy-four hours ending 2 a m hiffhent 14 lowest 40 mean 42 xormnl temperature lor the day 49 deficiency sinre january 1 404 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hour none de ficiency since january 1 5.89 inches relative humidity 7 a m 67 2 p m 66 7 p m 66 barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.28 7 p m 30.00 sunrise to-diy 6:14 sunset 4;54 coisdlet covammtnt leport on pace it Chicago leads other districts in day's drive washington oct 24 other districts did not live up to the lead set by Chicago m liberty day subscriptions to the loan but here are the latest official and un official figures up to early after noon inofficial . official to-day boston $ 205,700,000 $ 260,000,000 olicnko 204,805,000 390,000,000 k york 737,719,000 935,000,000 phlla .. 54,940,350 250,000,000 clev'l'd 192,769,000 250,000,000 it 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